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TIL The Z-series Spacesuits look a LOT like Buzz Lightyear

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vPj74 TIL that Underwater Hockey is a thing, has been since 1954, and is popular enough to have both Men's and Women's national championships.
wRp8 TIL that the Vatican owns the building that houses Europe’s largest gay bathhouse. Cardinal Ivan Dias, who has called homosexuality “unnatural” and had argued that gays can be “cured”, lives in a 12-room apartment on the floor directly above the sauna.
JeQV TIL in 1950, a disease called Myxomatosis was introduced to rabbits for population control in Australia. It wiped out 500,000,000 rabbits, giving them skin tumors and causing blindness, often killing them within 2 weeks.
R5a7 TIL there is a 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second camera that can record light as it moves
vAb4 TIL peanut butter packaged in single slices like cheese is a failed invention.